Applies to All versions of ONTAP and Data ONTAP Description If the filer has a high number of NFS operations, enable attribute caching on the NFS client to possibly reduce the large number of NFS oper...Applies to All versions of ONTAP and Data ONTAP Description If the filer has a high number of NFS operations, enable attribute caching on the NFS client to possibly reduce the large number of NFS operations and improve performance. Attribute caching remembers file attributes like ctime, atime, owner, permissions, etc., so that attributes that get used often are available locally on the NFS client rather then the filer.